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May 2024

What is QA Automation: Tools, Benefits, and Best Practices

Quality Assurance (QA) teams must run extensive tests to ensure that a website or application performs as intended before release. However, rather than manually running these tests, which can hinder productivity, modern teams are using QA automation. By automating QA testing workflows, teams can rapidly execute these tests using standardized processes, frameworks, and software. Developers can quickly fix any errors and deliver high-quality code so that product teams can speed up release times.

What's New in Kong Gateway 3.7?

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway Open Source (OSS) 3.7. This latest version features cutting-edge AI Gateway updates with new streaming plugins, as well as performance and security improvements. Let’s dive into the enhancements and explore the tangible benefits that these features bring to your organization.

Upgrade Your Processes with 11 New Generative AI Skills in Appian 24.2

AI can offer transformative business value. But you need the right combination of capabilities. Appian is continuing its history of providing practical value to enterprises across industries with the new AI capabilities in our 24.2 release—from 11 new generative AI skills that help you optimize mission-critical processes to the release of our Enterprise Copilot that gives users instant answers to their questions. This post will cover the latest enhancements to our AI offerings.

Flutter AI Integration: Developing Next-gen Mobile Apps

Have you ever wondered how mobile apps are becoming more personalized and providing enriching experiences? Well, one of the key trends shaping the future of mobile app development is the integration of Artificial Intelligence. With AI, apps can now interact, function, and adapt in new ways to create truly unique experiences for users. As a consequence, Flutter, a popular framework for mobile app development, is becoming a go-to choice for many developers when it comes to integrating AI into their apps.

Five Things to Avoid in Ruby

As a contract software developer, I am exposed to oodles of Ruby code. Some code is readable, some obfuscated. Some code eschews whitespace, as if carriage returns were a scarce natural resource, while other code resembles a living room fashioned by Vincent Van Duysen. Code, like the people who author it, varies. Yet, it's ideal to minimize variation. Time and effort are best spent on novel problems.

Cypress vs. Playwright for Node: A Head-to-Head Comparison

It's essential to test web applications to ensure reliability, functionality, and a good user experience. That's why robust testing frameworks have become so important for web developers. Among the plethora of available tools, Cypress and Playwright have emerged as two of the most popular choices for automating end-to-end testing. In this Cypress versus Playwright comparison guide, we'll explore the strengths and weaknesses of the two tools, their features, and their differences. Cypress or Playwright?

Serverless Decoded: Reinventing Kafka Scaling with Elastic CKUs

Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for data streaming, used by organizations everywhere to anchor event-driven architectures and power mission-critical real-time applications. However, this rise has also sparked discussions on improving Kafka operations and cost-efficiency—streaming data is naturally prone to bursts and often unpredictable, resulting in inevitable variations in workloads and demand on your Kafka cluster(s).

7 Crucial Data Governance Best Practices To Implement

Data governance covers processes, roles, policies, standards, and metrics that help an organization achieve its goals by ensuring the effective and efficient use of information. It sets up the processes and responsibilities necessary to maintain the data’s quality and security across the business. Data governance manages the formal data assets of an organization.

10 Fintech App Security Solutions [Complete Guide]

Design, speed, and simplicity are the winning flavors for any mobile banking app. By possessing these characteristics, the fintech app can entice any smartphone enthusiast, the number of whom is steadily increasing. The industry’s major players recognize that the pervasiveness of mobile phones in our lives must be used as a tool to win loyal users for FinTech businesses.